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drunkill posted:THe Australian International Airshow is on next weekend at Avalon airport. drat the B52 flyby is on Friday so I won't be able to see it  Should still be a good day out, haven't been there in a few years.
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Last time I saw a low level B52 it was running water injection, so I doubt any modern flyby could be anything other than a letdown to my memories, tbh.
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Feb 20, 2015 05:54
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Seeing a full-burn B1-B flyover at about 75-100 feet and mach .98 or so has ruined me.
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Feb 20, 2015 06:01
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I saw a B-52 do a high-speed, low-level pass once. The guy must have been sharp; I mean, real sharp. He barreled that thing in so low and so fast that he fried all the chickens in the barnyard!
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Feb 20, 2015 06:08
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Some photos from Steve Baker, raaf pilot and leader of the roulettes (display team) with some of his photos over the city two years ago for the last airshow.  I just saw two Fa-18s and a c130 doing a photoshoot over the city, so perhaps some nice photos from that soon
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Feb 20, 2015 06:18
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 at the New Zealand contribution. "Who wants to take the company plane for a weekend trip to Melbourne?"
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Feb 20, 2015 06:21
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Austria is flatter than I had expected.
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Feb 20, 2015 07:21
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BIG HEADLINE posted:even if I'd imagine a fully-spooled BUFF beats a classic or Super Hornet for noise any day of the week. They go right over I-20 at a couple hundred feet on takeoff/landing. If you happen to be driving by at just the right time, yeah, it's insanely loud.
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Feb 20, 2015 07:32
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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mlmp08 posted:Seeing a full-burn B1-B flyover at about 75-100 feet and mach .98 or so has ruined me. How badly did you want to shoot it down?
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Feb 20, 2015 09:13
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AlexanderCA posted:How badly did you want to shoot it down? I grew up seeing vulcans* do the same every day of my childhood, and I can honestly say there was only once I remember wanting to shoot any of them down * And F4s (-K, -M and -Gs), FB111s, A10s, F15s, Harriers, Buccaneers and occasionally B52s and F104Gs (when the luftwaffe came out to play)
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SybilVimes posted:I grew up seeing vulcans* do the same every day of my childhood, and I can honestly say there was only once I remember wanting to shoot any of them down yeah but suppose for a second a poster in this thread was regularly in a position where they actually could... that would perhaps be 
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Feb 20, 2015 10:11
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mlmp08 posted:Seeing a full-burn B1-B flyover at about 75-100 feet and mach .98 or so has ruined me. The rest of the flight crew was probably a bunch of pussies telling him to pull up too.
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Feb 20, 2015 11:13
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mlmp08 posted:B1-B You never see F16-A
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Feb 20, 2015 13:00
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Even the newspaper does it (B1-B) I noticed today, which is odd because they usually get technical details wrong.
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Feb 20, 2015 13:15
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In newspapers it's supposed to be spelled "BONE" so it's still wrong:
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Feb 20, 2015 13:27
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I love Melbourne so much. Haven't been since May.
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Feb 20, 2015 14:53
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Groda posted:Why do people keep doing this? Brainfart. I know better. But yeah it doesn't jump out as totally dumb as quickly as it does for a fighter.
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Feb 20, 2015 15:00
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BIG HEADLINE posted:A MITO drill in the middle of the day is somewhat dismissible, and would likely be reported in advance by the local TV and radio news stations. A MITO takeoff happening in the middle of the night/early morning is cause for a pucker factor check.
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Feb 20, 2015 16:35
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phongn posted:Back in the SAC days they did Operational Readiness Inspections at any time of any day, and probably did full on MITO scrambles under the silent gaze of CINCSAC. I imagine you'd never really know if it's For Real or not (unless you hear air-raid sirens in "this is real" mode). The air raid sirens did go off in "this is real" mode during the cold war, it was close many times. My grandfather was stationed at Elmendorf during the Cuban Missile crisis. During the DEFCON 2 period they lost all communications with the lower 48 at one point. Full alert, scramble, families sent to safe haven away from the base, everything. I did always wonder about the "send all the women and children into inland Alaska" thing, nuclear hellfire would be preferable to starvation/hypothermia after Anchorage was nuked.
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Feb 20, 2015 16:44
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I remember a B-1 flying over the crowd with full afterburner at an air show I went to. Still the loudest thing I've ever heard.
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Feb 20, 2015 16:53
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Luneshot posted:I remember a B-1 flying over the crowd with full afterburner at an air show I went to. Still the loudest thing I've ever heard. The viggen is the loudest I've heard, louder than anything US or UK, vulcan included.
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Feb 20, 2015 17:00
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Man I hope thy do something stupid like replace the 16s/18s of the TBirds/Blue Angels with 35s, just because at the Chicago Air Show I have access to a roof that is just off show center, so when they tend to merge and such one likes to pass right over my head. The B1 always set the bar, but hopefully the F135 makes it good for something: ear damage.
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Feb 20, 2015 17:25
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Groda posted:Why do people keep doing this? What, is it like the (proper use of) Jr. and Sr.? While Dad is alive he's [name] and his son is [name Jr.], but when dad dies, the son becomes [name] and dad, God rest his soul, is [name Sr.] I suppose, to continue the analogy, the Bone is like Dale Earnhardt, continuing to use the Jr. even when it's no longer necessary -- he's the only Dale now, goddammit! phongn posted:I imagine you'd never really know if it's For Real or not (unless you hear air-raid sirens in "this is real" mode). Yeah, I'm pretty sure they scheduled the random drills to not be on the day they test the air raid sirens. In similar news, I saw a two-ship taking off closely spaced last week, sadly didn't have the camera at hand.  "Is that a B-52 or an airliner?" "BUFF. See how it's climbing but the nose isn't pointed up? That's because-- oh, there goes another one."When I read the post about the MITO drill I had to check the date to make sure I didn't just miss it. SybilVimes posted:The viggen is the loudest I've heard, louder than anything US or UK, vulcan included. A B-52 flying over your head on short final, on the other hand, sneaks up on you and then sounds like you're standing six feet from a concrete saw -- this video with the volume maxed out and good headphones gets pretty close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03XbV5iPvQY Apparently I didn't post my photo of a BUFF up close in this thread?  That's the one with the noise I'm talking about. And it was landing. For a second I seriously thought the car had caught fire and was about to explode, GTA-style, until I saw it.
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Feb 20, 2015 17:58
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I remember attending the Willow Grove Air Show back in the late 80s and I got to see a C-130 do a JATO. That was the loudest thing I've ever heard.
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Feb 20, 2015 20:53
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Harrier hovering at an air show was my loudest, but I'm not sure if it was actually that much louder, or just felt like it was because it was hovering for a minute or two and not just flying overhead.
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Feb 20, 2015 21:00
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Slo-Tek posted:I really hope they manage to plow all the money into this foolishness, then get disallowed by the DMV preferably after they have already paid to haul the thing at least to Vegas. Desperately unimaginative. Jokes on you when instead of trucking it from Mojave to Gerlock they actually hook up a dirigible to the top and fly it there.
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Feb 20, 2015 21:12
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Is there any kind of joint force exercises going on right now? I may or may not have seen several flights of euro fighters over the past couple of days.
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Feb 20, 2015 22:19
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fknlo posted:Is there any kind of joint force exercises going on right now? I may or may not have seen several flights of euro fighters over the past couple of days. Weird. 3 f18 landed at San Antonio last night as well.
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Where? Edit: normally they wouldn't bring more than 8 fighters, probably less. Godholio fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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Feb 20, 2015 23:37
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B-52s are just about my favorite thing ever.
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Feb 20, 2015 23:56
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:B-52s are just about my favorite thing ever. Love Shack or Rock Lobster?
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Feb 20, 2015 23:57
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Mazz posted:Man I hope thy do something stupid like replace the 16s/18s of the TBirds/Blue Angels with 35s, just because at the Chicago Air Show I have access to a roof that is just off show center, so when they tend to merge and such one likes to pass right over my head. The B1 always set the bar, but hopefully the F135 makes it good for something: ear damage. Hello, I'm your new friend from Wrigleyville.
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Godholio posted:Where? Flying across southern Illinois. Had a group of 4 break up with their tanker yesterday and the same today. May have been the same group, but was still a first for me.
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Feb 21, 2015 01:51
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Mazz posted:Man I hope thy do something stupid like replace the 16s/18s of the TBirds/Blue Angels with 35s I was wondering about that a while ago. Once they start retiring the Hornet, they won't have any other options unless whatever comes after the F-35 has had enough time to get established in the fleet as well. At least the Thunderbirds could theoretically switch to some older F-22's when the F-16 retires. I also can't wait to see an F-35 painted blue and gold.
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Feb 21, 2015 02:13
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I wonder what the radar return of blue and gold paint would be on a F-22.
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Feb 21, 2015 02:49
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D C posted:Love Shack or Rock Lobster? 
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Feb 21, 2015 02:54
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I see Thunderbirds/Blue Angels going back into trainers far more likely than getting into -22s or -35s. Blue and gold T-45s would look pretty sharp I think. What's the USAFs advanced trainer these days?
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Feb 21, 2015 02:56
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Still the T-38 I think
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Feb 21, 2015 02:58
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Mazz posted:Man I hope thy do something stupid like replace the 16s/18s of the TBirds/Blue Angels with 35s The sad part will be 50 years in the future with traditionally-piloted aerobatic teams performing their thing safely while various drone/UAV craft zip around and pull maneuvers that would rip apart a human being. And if one of the robots slams into the pavement or nearby river, nobody has to have a serious and unexpected talk with their kids.
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Now I wish I could photoshop a formation of Reapers in Thunderbirds livery. Edit: And Global Hawks in blue and gold.
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